Integrated Indigenous Studies Emphasis, Associate in Arts Direct Transfer Agreement (AA-DTA)

An introduction to the basics of Coast Salish languages focusing on Klallam, the language of the northern Olympic Peninsula. After covering the sound system and alphabet with practice in listening, spelling, and pronunciation, the course will introduce the fundamental transitive and intransitive grammatical constructions with an emphasis on useful phrases. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Elective)

Introduction to the Makah Language is a beginning course in Makah focusing on the Makah Alphabet, pronunciation and accent. Useful phrases, expressions and dialogues at a beginner present tense level will be used. Vocabulary with specific Makah cultural context in balance with modern life situations will make for applicable language use. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Elective)

This course is an introduction to the language of the Quileute-speaking tribes (the Quileute and Hoh). Students will begin by learning the phonetics (pronunciation and writing) of Quileute sounds and basic grammar. Emphasis will be on practical vocabulary, phrases and sentence-building for social interaction and public speaking as well as writing the Quileute language. Classes will also include Quileute cultural content and relevant language. (Elective)

Methods topics include teaching the usage of technology. Math topics include algebra, geometry, measurement, and statistics. This course satisfies the quantitative skills requirement for the AA-DTA degree, provided that Math for Elementary Teachers I has also been completed satisfactorily. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Quantitative Skills, Natural Sciences, Elective)

The study of linear, quadratic, rational, exponential, and logarithmic functions, and solving their related equations; systems of equations; matrices; linear programming (graphically); and the mathematics of finance. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Quantitative Skills, Natural Sciences, Elective)

This course covers the following topics: linear equations, matrix algebra, use of technology, rigorous proof, vector spaces, linear independence, basis, orthogonality, linear transformations, eigenvalues/ vectors, Gram-Schmidt, least squares regression, and applications. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Quantitative Skills, Elective)

Review of double integrals in Cartesian and polar coordinates; triple integrals in Cartesian, cylindrical, and spherical coordinates; vector fields; surface integrals; Green’s theorem; divergence theorem; Stokes’ theorem; sequences and series; Taylor’s theorem. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Quantitative Skills, Elective)

Introduction to applied problem solving with first and second order ordinary differential equations using analytical, numerical and graphic methods. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Quantitative Skills, Elective)

A study of a variety of mathematical topics for non-science majors. The topics covered may differ between sections, but may include problem solving strategies, logic, set theory, number theory, mathematics of finance, probability and statistics, or geometry. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Quantitative Skills, Natural Sciences, Elective)

Analysis of linear, piecewise, quadratic, polynomial, rational, inverse, exponential, and logarithmic functions; their applications; and their graphs. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Quantitative Skills, Natural Sciences, Elective)

Conic sections; trigonometric functions; identities; inverse trigonometric functions; trigonometric equations; solutions of right triangles; laws of sines and cosines; vectors; polar coordinates; and complex numbers. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Quantitative Skills, Natural Sciences, Elective)

Introduction to methods and applications of elementary descriptive and inferential statistics; summarizing data graphically and numerically, probability, confidence intervals, hypothesis testing, correlation and linear regression. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Quantitative Skills, Natural Sciences, Elective)

Limits, rates of change, graphing, differentiating, optimizing, polynomials, integration, logarithmic and exponential functions, implicit differentiation, business applications. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Quantitative Skills, Natural Sciences, Elective)

Limits and continuity; techniques and applications of derivatives of algebraic and transcendental functions; an introduction to antiderivatives. This class may include students from multiple sections. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Quantitative Skills, Natural Sciences, Elective)

Integration involving algebraic and transcendental functions. Applications of integration, including an introduction to differential equations. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Quantitative Skills, Natural Sciences, Elective)

Sequences and series, vector algebra and vector functions, functions of several variables, and partial derivatives. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Quantitative Skills, Natural Sciences, Elective)

This is a continuation of KLA 121. The class will continue deepening and expanding students' understanding of the Klallam language. The class will intensify instruction with more emphasis on transitive, reciprocal, reflexive grammatical constructions, including question construction. These will be covered with ample practice in use. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Elective)

Builds from the Introduction to Makah Language (MAKAH 121) foundation where speech was patterned in the moment. MAKAH 122 incorporates the past tense including functional words to slightly increase speech using words like but not limited to and, or, but, this, that, with, also. Furthermore, the use of past tense scenarios from select Makah historic incidents and traditional story examples will be used to enable learners to apply past tense to share stories from their own lives in Makah. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Elective)

This intermediate course builds on QUIL 121, the introduction to the language of the Quileute-speaking tribes (the Quileute and Hoh). Students will continue studying the phonetics (pronunciation and writing) of Quileute sounds and basic grammar. Emphasis will be on practical vocabulary, phrases and sentence-building for social interaction and public speaking as well as writing the Quileute language. Content will also feature translation exercises based on traditional Quileute stories in Andrade's 1931 reprint Quileute Texts. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Elective)

This is a continuation of KLA 122. We will continue deepening and expanding our understanding of the Klallam language. More on transitive and passive constructions; expressions of time, place, and path; discourse structure and storytelling patterns will be covered with ample practice in use. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities, Elective)

Builds grammatically to future tense constructions. Target vocabulary expands to include the five senses and lead words like auxiliary verbs, size, degrees, adjectives, question words, location and emotion. Common phrases to express opinion, thought and planning will be used to help speakers express themselves in the language. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities, Elective) 

Builds grammatically to "intentive" (future) tense constructions. Target vocabulary expands to include the five senses and lead words like auxiliary verbs, size, degrees, adjectives, question words, location and emotion. Common phrases to express opinion, thought and planning will be used to help speakers express themselves in the language. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities, Elective)

Introduction for nonmajors to study of humans as biological and cultural beings. Includes surveys of archaeology and physical, cultural, and linguistic anthropology to examine human biological and cultural evolution, culture, and cultural systems. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Social Sciences, Elective)

This course is an introduction to ceramics based materials and creative process, with emphasis on personal expression through diverse practices. Students create a series of projects utilizing a variety of traditional and innovative hand building techniques and processes to create three dimensional sculptural forms. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities-Performance, Elective)

This class has a $120 ceramics supply course fee.

This course is an introduction to ceramics materials and creative processes, using the potter’s wheel. Students create a series of projects utilizing a variety of traditional and innovative throwing techniques and firing processes to create functional forms. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities-Performance, Elective)

This class has a $120 ceramics supply course fee.

This course helps students advance their ceramic based techniques and concepts through studio work, art theory, processes, and personal expression. The focus of the course is determined by student interests and will include a diverse offering of sculptural and functional theories and approaches to making. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Elective)

This class has a $140 ceramics supply course fee.

This course helps students advance their ceramic-based techniques and concepts through studio work, art theory, processes, and personal expression. Though the majority of the artwork in this course will be made utilizing the potter's wheel, the focus of course is determined by the functional theories and approaches to making. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Elective)

This class has a $140 ceramics supply course fee.

Beginning writing in fiction and poetry, other modes by request. Workshop approach, with discussion of work by class members and instructor. Reading of contemporary fiction, poetry, and theory. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities-Performance, Elective)

Advanced creative writing using workshop approach. Genres offered vary by quarter and instructor. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Elective)

Survey of classic works as well as new voices from the beginning of American literature to the present. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities, Elective)

Introduces concepts and techniques relating to the study of place and population, migration, economic, cultural and political organizations. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Social Sciences, Elective)

With emphasis on the states of Washington, Oregon, and Idaho, Pacific Northwest (PNW) history proceeds through five main periods: indigenous peoples before European arrival, European arrival and exploration, European colonialism, industrial and urban development and immigration, and regional autonomy for the PNW, and considers various marginalized groups in society, including Native Americans, African Americans, and Asian Americans. Within these different historical periods, the course also examines social difference (e.g., ethnicity, race, and gender), economic and political organization, and cultural values. ENGL& 101 is strongly recommended. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Social Sciences, Elective)

This course will examine the environmental history of the Greater Pacific Northwest; the geographic area defined by the Columbia River watershed, including the coastal areas of present-day Oregon, extending north through the Salish Sea including into Canada. Topics covered will include natural history of the Pacific Northwest, the experience of native indigenous people as past, present, and on-going stewards of the land, the historical dynamic of the PNW as a meeting point of multiple cultures, and how historical cultural, social and economic values influence interaction with the environment as a set of changing relationships over time. It will also ask the class as a community and as individuals to reflect on how we understand and value our environment, how we interact with people and place, and how we engage with the past. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Social Sciences, Elective)

Students in this course will self-reflect on their own learning in relationship to indigenous pedagogies and explore if indigenous informed educational philosophies can represent a practice of healing. This course will examine The Assimilation Era, 1870s to 1970s, when governmental educational institutions were employed to disrupt and disappear the complex educational systems practiced by native people since time immemorial. The common practices of pre-colonial indigenous pedagogies will be illuminated and engaged to critically explore the colonizing pedagogy forced on students in government-sanctioned schools. Indigenous pedagogies have proven so resilient that they help to illustrate how indigenous people have continually renewed and revived their cultures through education despite the ongoing oppression of colonization. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Formerly HIST 215, Social Sciences, Elective)

Exploration of women’s voices and works in the Arts and Humanities from specific time periods and mediums. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities, Elective)

Continuation of KLA 123. Mastery of listening, reading, writing, and speaking; review of previous material; introduction to Klallam traditional tales and lore. Learner-centered instruction focusing on translation and analysis of recorded Klallam narratives and conversation. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Elective)

Continuation of KLA 221. Mastery of listening, reading, writing, and speaking; review of previous material; continued exploration of Klallam traditional tales and lore. Learner-centered instruction focusing on translation and analysis of recorded Klallam narratives and conversation. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Elective)

Continuation of KLA 222. Mastery of listening, reading, writing, and speaking; review of previous material; continued exploration into Klallam traditional tales and lore. Learner-centered instruction focusing on translation and analysis of recorded Klallam narratives and conversation. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Elective)

MAKAH 221 builds on the foundation of the tenses used in the 100 level classes, but with the conjunctions for making explanations. Target vocabulary will include more places and transportation, with some examples associated with Makah stories. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Elective)

MAKAH 222 covers the use of conditional sentences, including a continuation of comments, phrases and expressions from MAKAH 221. An additional Makah story, including conditional sentences, will be included in this course. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Elective)

MAKAH 223 focuses on the use of relative clauses. Students learn to use informational question words like who or where and use them as relative clauses. The course also focuses on the interactive pronoun suffixes. Traditional Makah stories will guide the curriculum. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities, Elective)

Introduction for nonmajors to study of humans as biological and cultural beings. Includes surveys of archaeology and physical, cultural, and linguistic anthropology to examine human biological and cultural evolution, culture, and cultural systems. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Social Sciences, Elective)

This course is an introduction to ceramics based materials and creative process, with emphasis on personal expression through diverse practices. Students create a series of projects utilizing a variety of traditional and innovative hand building techniques and processes to create three dimensional sculptural forms. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities-Performance, Elective)

This class has a $120 ceramics supply course fee.

This course is an introduction to ceramics materials and creative processes, using the potter’s wheel. Students create a series of projects utilizing a variety of traditional and innovative throwing techniques and firing processes to create functional forms. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities-Performance, Elective)

This class has a $120 ceramics supply course fee.

This course helps students advance their ceramic based techniques and concepts through studio work, art theory, processes, and personal expression. The focus of the course is determined by student interests and will include a diverse offering of sculptural and functional theories and approaches to making. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Elective)

This class has a $140 ceramics supply course fee.

This course helps students advance their ceramic-based techniques and concepts through studio work, art theory, processes, and personal expression. Though the majority of the artwork in this course will be made utilizing the potter's wheel, the focus of course is determined by the functional theories and approaches to making. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Elective)

This class has a $140 ceramics supply course fee.

Beginning writing in fiction and poetry, other modes by request. Workshop approach, with discussion of work by class members and instructor. Reading of contemporary fiction, poetry, and theory. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities-Performance, Elective)

Advanced creative writing using workshop approach. Genres offered vary by quarter and instructor. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Elective)

Survey of classic works as well as new voices from the beginning of American literature to the present. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities, Elective)

Introduces concepts and techniques relating to the study of place and population, migration, economic, cultural and political organizations. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Social Sciences, Elective)

With emphasis on the states of Washington, Oregon, and Idaho, Pacific Northwest (PNW) history proceeds through five main periods: indigenous peoples before European arrival, European arrival and exploration, European colonialism, industrial and urban development and immigration, and regional autonomy for the PNW, and considers various marginalized groups in society, including Native Americans, African Americans, and Asian Americans. Within these different historical periods, the course also examines social difference (e.g., ethnicity, race, and gender), economic and political organization, and cultural values. ENGL& 101 is strongly recommended. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Social Sciences, Elective)

This course will examine the environmental history of the Greater Pacific Northwest; the geographic area defined by the Columbia River watershed, including the coastal areas of present-day Oregon, extending north through the Salish Sea including into Canada. Topics covered will include natural history of the Pacific Northwest, the experience of native indigenous people as past, present, and on-going stewards of the land, the historical dynamic of the PNW as a meeting point of multiple cultures, and how historical cultural, social and economic values influence interaction with the environment as a set of changing relationships over time. It will also ask the class as a community and as individuals to reflect on how we understand and value our environment, how we interact with people and place, and how we engage with the past. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Social Sciences, Elective)

Students in this course will self-reflect on their own learning in relationship to indigenous pedagogies and explore if indigenous informed educational philosophies can represent a practice of healing. This course will examine The Assimilation Era, 1870s to 1970s, when governmental educational institutions were employed to disrupt and disappear the complex educational systems practiced by native people since time immemorial. The common practices of pre-colonial indigenous pedagogies will be illuminated and engaged to critically explore the colonizing pedagogy forced on students in government-sanctioned schools. Indigenous pedagogies have proven so resilient that they help to illustrate how indigenous people have continually renewed and revived their cultures through education despite the ongoing oppression of colonization. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Formerly HIST 215, Social Sciences, Elective)

Exploration of women’s voices and works in the Arts and Humanities from specific time periods and mediums. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities, Elective)

Continuation of KLA 123. Mastery of listening, reading, writing, and speaking; review of previous material; introduction to Klallam traditional tales and lore. Learner-centered instruction focusing on translation and analysis of recorded Klallam narratives and conversation. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Elective)

Continuation of KLA 221. Mastery of listening, reading, writing, and speaking; review of previous material; continued exploration of Klallam traditional tales and lore. Learner-centered instruction focusing on translation and analysis of recorded Klallam narratives and conversation. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Elective)

Continuation of KLA 222. Mastery of listening, reading, writing, and speaking; review of previous material; continued exploration into Klallam traditional tales and lore. Learner-centered instruction focusing on translation and analysis of recorded Klallam narratives and conversation. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Elective)

MAKAH 221 builds on the foundation of the tenses used in the 100 level classes, but with the conjunctions for making explanations. Target vocabulary will include more places and transportation, with some examples associated with Makah stories. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Elective)

MAKAH 222 covers the use of conditional sentences, including a continuation of comments, phrases and expressions from MAKAH 221. An additional Makah story, including conditional sentences, will be included in this course. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Elective)

MAKAH 223 focuses on the use of relative clauses. Students learn to use informational question words like who or where and use them as relative clauses. The course also focuses on the interactive pronoun suffixes. Traditional Makah stories will guide the curriculum. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities, Elective)

Hands-on approach utilizing facilities at local marine laboratory, field trips, and group projects to learn biological concepts relevant to marine biology. Emphasis on local organisms and ecology. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Natural Sciences with Lab, Elective)

Introduction to general plant biology. Anatomy, physiology, and diversity of common protists, fungi, and plants, with emphasis on plants of the Pacific Northwest. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Natural Sciences with Lab, Elective)

Introduces concepts and techniques relating to the study of place and population, migration, economic, cultural and political organizations. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Social Sciences, Elective)

This course will examine the environmental history of the Greater Pacific Northwest; the geographic area defined by the Columbia River watershed, including the coastal areas of present-day Oregon, extending north through the Salish Sea including into Canada. Topics covered will include natural history of the Pacific Northwest, the experience of native indigenous people as past, present, and on-going stewards of the land, the historical dynamic of the PNW as a meeting point of multiple cultures, and how historical cultural, social and economic values influence interaction with the environment as a set of changing relationships over time. It will also ask the class as a community and as individuals to reflect on how we understand and value our environment, how we interact with people and place, and how we engage with the past. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Social Sciences, Elective)

An introduction to types of museums, with a focus on Indigenous museums and indigenized museums, and the roles of such institutions within society. This course explores historical and current issues of power structures forming narratives and representations about identity, race, ethnicity, culture, history, and gender within museums. Social justice and social change are important themes for this course. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Social Sciences, Elective)

Introduction for nonmajors to study of humans as biological and cultural beings. Includes surveys of archaeology and physical, cultural, and linguistic anthropology to examine human biological and cultural evolution, culture, and cultural systems. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Social Sciences, Elective)

This course is an introduction to ceramics based materials and creative process, with emphasis on personal expression through diverse practices. Students create a series of projects utilizing a variety of traditional and innovative hand building techniques and processes to create three dimensional sculptural forms. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities-Performance, Elective)

This class has a $120 ceramics supply course fee.

This course is an introduction to ceramics materials and creative processes, using the potter’s wheel. Students create a series of projects utilizing a variety of traditional and innovative throwing techniques and firing processes to create functional forms. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities-Performance, Elective)

This class has a $120 ceramics supply course fee.

This course helps students advance their ceramic based techniques and concepts through studio work, art theory, processes, and personal expression. The focus of the course is determined by student interests and will include a diverse offering of sculptural and functional theories and approaches to making. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Elective)

This class has a $140 ceramics supply course fee.

This course helps students advance their ceramic-based techniques and concepts through studio work, art theory, processes, and personal expression. Though the majority of the artwork in this course will be made utilizing the potter's wheel, the focus of course is determined by the functional theories and approaches to making. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Elective)

This class has a $140 ceramics supply course fee.

Beginning writing in fiction and poetry, other modes by request. Workshop approach, with discussion of work by class members and instructor. Reading of contemporary fiction, poetry, and theory. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities-Performance, Elective)

Advanced creative writing using workshop approach. Genres offered vary by quarter and instructor. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Elective)

Survey of classic works as well as new voices from the beginning of American literature to the present. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities, Elective)

Introduces concepts and techniques relating to the study of place and population, migration, economic, cultural and political organizations. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Social Sciences, Elective)

With emphasis on the states of Washington, Oregon, and Idaho, Pacific Northwest (PNW) history proceeds through five main periods: indigenous peoples before European arrival, European arrival and exploration, European colonialism, industrial and urban development and immigration, and regional autonomy for the PNW, and considers various marginalized groups in society, including Native Americans, African Americans, and Asian Americans. Within these different historical periods, the course also examines social difference (e.g., ethnicity, race, and gender), economic and political organization, and cultural values. ENGL& 101 is strongly recommended. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Social Sciences, Elective)

This course will examine the environmental history of the Greater Pacific Northwest; the geographic area defined by the Columbia River watershed, including the coastal areas of present-day Oregon, extending north through the Salish Sea including into Canada. Topics covered will include natural history of the Pacific Northwest, the experience of native indigenous people as past, present, and on-going stewards of the land, the historical dynamic of the PNW as a meeting point of multiple cultures, and how historical cultural, social and economic values influence interaction with the environment as a set of changing relationships over time. It will also ask the class as a community and as individuals to reflect on how we understand and value our environment, how we interact with people and place, and how we engage with the past. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Social Sciences, Elective)

Students in this course will self-reflect on their own learning in relationship to indigenous pedagogies and explore if indigenous informed educational philosophies can represent a practice of healing. This course will examine The Assimilation Era, 1870s to 1970s, when governmental educational institutions were employed to disrupt and disappear the complex educational systems practiced by native people since time immemorial. The common practices of pre-colonial indigenous pedagogies will be illuminated and engaged to critically explore the colonizing pedagogy forced on students in government-sanctioned schools. Indigenous pedagogies have proven so resilient that they help to illustrate how indigenous people have continually renewed and revived their cultures through education despite the ongoing oppression of colonization. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Formerly HIST 215, Social Sciences, Elective)

Exploration of women’s voices and works in the Arts and Humanities from specific time periods and mediums. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities, Elective)

Continuation of KLA 123. Mastery of listening, reading, writing, and speaking; review of previous material; introduction to Klallam traditional tales and lore. Learner-centered instruction focusing on translation and analysis of recorded Klallam narratives and conversation. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Elective)

Continuation of KLA 221. Mastery of listening, reading, writing, and speaking; review of previous material; continued exploration of Klallam traditional tales and lore. Learner-centered instruction focusing on translation and analysis of recorded Klallam narratives and conversation. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Elective)

Continuation of KLA 222. Mastery of listening, reading, writing, and speaking; review of previous material; continued exploration into Klallam traditional tales and lore. Learner-centered instruction focusing on translation and analysis of recorded Klallam narratives and conversation. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Elective)

MAKAH 221 builds on the foundation of the tenses used in the 100 level classes, but with the conjunctions for making explanations. Target vocabulary will include more places and transportation, with some examples associated with Makah stories. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Elective)

MAKAH 222 covers the use of conditional sentences, including a continuation of comments, phrases and expressions from MAKAH 221. An additional Makah story, including conditional sentences, will be included in this course. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Elective)

MAKAH 223 focuses on the use of relative clauses. Students learn to use informational question words like who or where and use them as relative clauses. The course also focuses on the interactive pronoun suffixes. Traditional Makah stories will guide the curriculum. This class may include students from multiple sections. (Humanities, Elective)